Comment by AB: Students and faculty working in Art History, Art Practice, Design, and Film & Media Studies at Stanford University (all contributors to the first issue of ALMANAC, Sincerely Yours) come together for an artistic and cerebral wingding.

Comment by AB: St. Louis artist Ryan Thayer takes devices that both take and display photographs, like smart phones and computers, and exposes their screens to photo-sensitive paper. The resulting apparitional photograms, according to the theory behind the procedure, stand as documents that essentially bridge time-- melding elements of the past with those of the future. The good news? They're visually effective as well.

Comment by Clare Coppel: Oversized pieces fill the space with color. Beautiful girls, gold teeth, and crazy old men with San Francisco pride.

Comment by AB: Exceptionally impressive group show on a grand scale transforms the 941 Geary space into a breathtaking urban wonderland, the upside of decline. Public murals of the future? See 'em here today. Them times they are a changing.

Mural installation (back wall: Chor Boogie, left - Hush, right.

Mural by Hush in above image closer.

Mural by Chor Boogie in top image closer.

Mural art by D Young V at 941 Geary Gallery.

Mural art by Brett Amory, right, at 941 Geary Gallery.

Detail of mural art above (image c/o Clare Coppel).

Left to right - art by Hugh Leeman, Blek le Rat, Augustine Kofi.

Detail of Blek le Rat mural above (image c/o Clare Coppel.

Art by Augustine Kofi (l), Casey Gray (r) - image c/o Clare Coppel.

Population sample - Chor Boogie (back wall), Eddie Colla (right).

Mural art by Eddie Colla above closer (image c/o Clare Coppel).

Mural art by Skinner at 941 Geary Gallery.

Not even the floor escapes the spray can.

Mural art, l-r, Chor Bogie, Hush, Eddie Colla.

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Ictus Gallery: Home in the World, An Apocalyptic Travelogue - Joan Osato.

Review by RWM: Here are landscapes, less as subjects, but rather as muse for this personally experienced journey. Through it all, you cannot loose track of the person, the creator of the images, in these sometimes blurry, odd, or juxtopositioned works. This is not necessarily a trip to be jealous of, and even if you took it, you'd likely not come back to tell this particular tale.